Last meeting Chris showed us how he's displaying Tweets (Twitter posts) on his site. Good to know how to do this, with nothing better than the 4 only MyBlogLog module to offer a packaged solution.

This is an interesting topic to me currently, and thought it might be for some of you, as well.
I currently use a managed hosting plan on a shared server, and I'm using more than my allocated space regularly, so it's time to move on. I need to be able to rapidly make new databases, domains, email addresses, etc and have it all be pretty reliable. Aside from my own site it's not a public facing thing, and despite my enthusiasm for the SEO Checklist I'm not drowning in traffic, so bandwidth isn't a big concern. What are some options?

Shared server, managed

Interesting stuff we could perhaps discuss sometime....

Drupal focuses on content, not on users. So a social networking site where people are the center, rather than an interest, require some adjustment to Drupal if it's to be used to run it.

The adjustment really boils down to profiles. Dries has made it clear that users should not be nodes, but there is a group interested in making profiles nodes (a slight difference from users). Also, some interesting things have been done to extend Drupals profiles in interesting ways. Here are some fun links to check out:

Following up to what we talked about briefly last night about an alternative for Meetup, I found this module:

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http://drupal.org/project/interests
Interests
Taxonomy · Modules
Agileware - May 2, 2007 - 02:11

Allows users to select taxonomy terms from vocabularies as 'interests'. Each time they visit a node with that taxonomy term applied to it the interest level bumps up one, or creates a new interest for them. Interests can be added/removed manually on an administration/user level or by the user itself.

My company, InteractiveQA (http://www.interactiveqa.com) is getting really busy, and I'm looking for more help for our Drupal projects. At the moment we're wrapping up a project we'd like to deliver by the start of the new year. Most of the work is theming related. If you have some time I'd love to talk to you about helping us out. The pay is good and you can work from wherever, pretty much whenever you'd like.

You can reach me at 917.620.4902, or email me at josh@interactiveqa.com

Thanks!

Josh

There's a lot of chatter in the Drupal community over Adobe's use of Flex with Drupal (http://flex.org/php/)

Obi-Wan: "I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced."

Clearly, Obi-Wan was talking about the problem the Drupal community has had with development and keeping local copies to the database uploading along with code change. At our latest meeting we discussed this issue.

In searching for how others resolve this issue I found this recently released module, autopilot.

http://drupal.org/project/autopilot
AutoPilot
Utility · Modules
acstewart - August 20, 2007 - 23:44